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Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and My Bossy Favorite

dramaaaaatic teen angst, a cutthroat path to becoming a warrior, bucking expectations, a looming war--and, my favorite Aside from the dragons, my favorite element of the story is Violet's determined coping with and accommodations The overuse of smirking and " a corner of [his/her] mouth lifts" for amusement, the "cupping" of cheeks

the preliminary circumstances, the aftermaths, and the various movements of potential suspects over months Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites

And as far as she can tell, Miles does odd jobs and traveled around without a permanent address for months Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and My Bossy Favorite

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and Keegan is one of my favorite authors, and I'm in for all of her books.

you might like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite by Julia Phillips ​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month

story that flips a traditional setup, and I have high hopes that Long Live Evil is going to be my new favorite now she's dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her favorite

My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 characters to be less earnest and more playful and to invoke a little bit of dark humor at times (my favorite One of my favorite dragons is almost completely absent from the book (sleeping for hundreds of pages)

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer months Florence Adler Swims Forever, the story of a few summer months in the life of an extended family--including

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional This was quite possibly my favorite Cormoran Strike novel so far.

Some Lighter Fiction Favorites What I love about a romantic, rom-com, lighter fiction read is that real I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners , In a Holidaze , Love and Other Words , The Soulmate Equation (a favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry

Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and My Bossy Favorite

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite mystery reads?

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year, and Six Historical Fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Edan Lepucki's science-fiction time-travel novel, Time's Mouth 01 Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki When Ursa was a child she was horribly abused by her father, and while Ursa's own son Ray is shown some favoritism but is kept in the dark about his mother's ability.

ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime I would have been in favor of having the romantic element be tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads So far in 2024 I've been posting Friday Greedy Reading Lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads. I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more

This isn't my absolute favorite Mason book, and I didn't connect to the characters as I did in The Winter

Here are six of my favorite science fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! Two of these share one of my favorite setups (a ragtag crew with heart has adventures in space; The Long (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? (Gideon was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian Favorites

This is a departure from many of my more playful Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb Kate Bowler's book No Cure for Being Human is a five-star, all-time favorite read of mine.

Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year , Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! posted about Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and here are six more of my favorite I've posted roundups of favorites each Friday in 2023--check them out! And you can click here for My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite

with time, Wrong Place Wrong Time; I'm reading Antarctica, a collection of short stories by one of my favorite McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time (like some of my favorite

WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer months piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for Florence Adler Swims Forever, the story of a few summer months This book is listed in my Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved.

I love a Favorites list, and now that I've got a spreadsheet (ahem!) of my favorite reads of the past year by genre, the hits are going to keep coming! This list highlights six more of my very favorite mystery reads of last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) What are some of your favorite mystery titles or mystery genres?

Except, Harriet and Win broke up months ago...and haven't told anyone yet. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

Do you have any favorite cold-setting books? Earth by Julia Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month and crushed, leaving the crew marooned on the ice in a brutal fight for survival that lasted twenty months The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months on ice floes, a week's travel in an open boat, and months buried in the snow.

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Here are six of my very favorite historical fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some

I love a book set in the wild (Peter Heller's novels The River and The Guide come to mind as favorites

I love when stories play with time (see my multiple favorites lists below), and I loved that the relationship Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting

The stories in her book Buried Deep revisit some favorite Novik worlds as well as introducing the world

Espach leans into the concept of chosen family, a favorite of mine, and offers up second chances with

More Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked for other's favorites, bookish friends recommended: more of Katherine Center's books (I posted about You might also like some of the titles on my first Greedy Reading List of light fiction favorites. best-friendship between Jess and Fizzy (Felicity) is one of the funniest aspects and was one of my favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem).

because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time in her favorite

Gadgets, disguises, alternative identities, bugs and surveillance-- The Trap  involves many of my favorite

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorites you always recommend to others? What makes them your favorites?

ICYMI: This five-star read--part memoir/part essay--is one of my favorite books of Ann Patchett's, and My book club wasn't unanimous on a five-star rating, but this is one of my favorite Patchett books.

Reilly were two weeks into the several months they spent alternating the roles of Lee and Austin each If you love memoirs, you might like some of the books on my many Bossy lists of favorites: Six Illuminating

But my favorite element of the novel was the messy, wonderful family members that forge deeper connections

My favorite science fiction novels examine the Big Issues: What makes us people?

coping with the grief of having lost her mom and navigating romance using the inspiration of her mom's favorite coping with the grief of having lost her mom and navigating romance using the inspiration of her mom's favorite

Intermezzo is one of my favorite Rooney novels yet, exploring complicated families, grief, unconventional relationships is unconventional, and various players involved struggle to let go of societal expectations in favor

I took issue with Gram's unapologetic and outrageous favoritism toward Lexie, which could have possibly Lexie was the excellent swimmer and student and musician and had lots of friends and was their parents’ favorite , Grandma’s favorite, and family friend Ryan’s favorite (all despite her mental illness/schizophrenia

Some Light Fiction Favorites At the start of the pandemic, I was particularly drawn to lighter fiction These are some of my light fiction favorites, and they're also perfect for summer reading. I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other Words, The Soulmate Equation (a favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry Is

With her savvy smarts and big heart, she was one of my favorite characters.